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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attacker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
kill
▪ Eventually Ponyboy's best friend, Johnny kills his attacker in order to save his and Ponyboy's life.
▪ If the spear killed attackers, so much the better.
▪ In popular mythology poisonous snakes are always ready and waiting for the chance to strike out and kill their attackers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her attacker is described as white, in his mid-fifties and with medium-length dark hair.
▪ The attacker fled empy-handed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eventually Ponyboy's best friend, Johnny kills his attacker in order to save his and Ponyboy's life.
▪ Her attacker then dragged her into bushes.
▪ Margaret McLaughlin almost certainly scratched her attacker.
▪ Mr Harrison was slashed across the chest three times and stabbed, yet he clung on, trying to overpower the attacker.
▪ Some of the attackers were also killed and injured, but their number was not immediately known.
▪ The defender now turns attacker, stepping quickly forward and striking with a reverse punch to his attacker's chest.
▪ The trapped forces use up their supplies, and the attacker can strike from all directions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attacker

Attacker \At*tack"er\, n. One who attacks.

Wiktionary
attacker

n. 1 Someone who attacks. 2 (context soccer English) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

WordNet
attacker

n. someone who attacks [syn: aggressor, assailant, assaulter]

Wikipedia
Attacker

In some team sports, an attacker is a specific type of player, usually involved in aggressive play. Heavy attackers are, usually, placed up front: their goal is to score the most possible points for the team.

In association football, attackers are also referred to as strikers.

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Category:Sports terminology

Attacker (disambiguation)

An attacker is someone who attacks or a type of player in some sports.

For the term attacker in computer security, see Hacker (computer security), Adversary (cryptography), and Adversary model.'' Attacker may also refer to:

  • Attacker class escort carrier, a class of escort aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy
  • Attacker class patrol boat, a class of British-built patrol boats
  • , more than one ship of the British Royal Navy

  • Supermarine Attacker, a British aircraft

Usage examples of "attacker".

RAT, or Remote Access Trojan, gives the attacker full access to your computer, just as if he were sitting at your keyboard.

Our main force would attack from all entries to the dwelling, a second force remaining without, in the darkness, to see to any attackers attempting our rear.

They bore a variety of weapons, including axes and hammers as well as an occasional crossbow or spear, and they shouted their hatred and anger at the attackers who had emerged from the brush with such shocking and brutal speed.

Twice they were intercepted, but Bunion dispatched the attackers with a swiftness that was frightening.

Seven crofts were in their pathway, but the assailants expected to attack only three, for MacKinnion crofters were skilled warriors as well as farmers, and the few attackers had only surprise on their side.

His helmet spun off and his attacker sank long cuspids into the top of his skull.

Coming around as Drock reached him, the Mask pumped bullets into his wild-eyed attacker, settling the Drock question permanently.

He kept his claws on the controls for the emergency reverse thrusters in case Boba Fett, like the devious scoundrel he was known to be, was lying low inside the other ship, waiting for his own chance to take a shot at his attacker.

An attacker who discovers this message will learn valuable information about the type and configuration of the companys firewall that enables him to circumvent it to gain access to the enterprise network.

Letting, his momentum take him, keeping his hold on the framea, Atretes rolled and came to his feet, freeing the weapon and bringing the razor sharp spear point into the abdomen of an attacker.

With the light behind her now, Gaye could see that her attacker had a dull yellow-orange face with short tusks sticking up over its upper lip, and wore black, spike-studded armor, well oiled.

This last was perhaps as well, for the attackers were so weak with laughter at the sight of a very dignified Turkish general in full regalia crawling from under the gharry that they were in no condition to put up a serious fight.

Instead it had been Gilden who flung himself at the attacker, blocking the blow, and killed the guardsman.

I jinked the heli right and left, then pushed the cyclic forward again, forcing the collective against the stops, racing to put the ridgeline between us and our attackers.

Barrelstave and Lapith Hornbeam and a couple of the Dunk clan, fell on the attackers and dragged them back.